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Michelle Obama portrait faces brutal mockery after unveiling
Fox News ^ | February 12, 2018 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 02/12/2018 9:56:09 AM PST by Olog-hai

The National Portrait Gallery on Monday unveiled portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama — to a very mixed reception.

Even though Barack Obama praised Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald “for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman I love,” many critics on social media slammed the rendition of the former first lady.

Their main question: Is that really her? […]

For the portrait, the former first lady was painted in “grayscale” — a charcoal color with taupe undertones. She’s seated, with her hair falling around her shoulders, in a bold floor-length dress.

While most agreed the image was striking, Twitter went to war over whether it looked anything like Michelle Obama. The verdict varied widely, from positive responses to confused reactions to concern that the portrait did not live up to the subject. …

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: blackkk; bushportrait; clintonportrait; killwhitey; michelle; michelleportrait; nationalportrait; natlportraitgallery; obama; obamanation; obamaportrait; portrait; selfcongratulation; washingtondc
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t know much about art, but it seems to me like a college art major could do better.


21 posted on 02/12/2018 10:06:39 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Olog-hai

Her arms look fat.


22 posted on 02/12/2018 10:06:45 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Olog-hai

I did not know Mapplethorpe did portrait commissions. Who knew?!


23 posted on 02/12/2018 10:07:05 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Olog-hai

I think HIS portrait makes him look like a third world drug kingpin from a Magic Realism novel by Gabriel García Marquez.


24 posted on 02/12/2018 10:07:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: simpson96

Did they ever do any art restoration to try to fix that crazy woman’s work?


25 posted on 02/12/2018 10:07:10 AM PST by mairdie
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To: Olog-hai

It was important that Zero be shown in the chair. That empty chair business really got in his head...............


26 posted on 02/12/2018 10:07:48 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Osage Orange
From the Fox article: "...She added, “I’m also thinking about all the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up, and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall..."

Only if they are little trannies.

27 posted on 02/12/2018 10:08:06 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

It appears the artists went to great pains to capture the spirit and character of former President and First Lady. Their ability to lead the nation, to improve the economy, and bring together the American people is suitably represented by this pair of unique portraits.


28 posted on 02/12/2018 10:08:20 AM PST by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: Olog-hai

Two phony portraits for two phony people.


29 posted on 02/12/2018 10:08:54 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: conservative98

The main problem is that the woman in the portrait does not resemble Michelle Obama. I would not have recognized her as the former First Lady had I not read the article. The second problem — which is not a real “problem”, just something that I am rolling my eyes about — is that the portrait is informal, impressionistic, and amateurish. It is of dramatically lower quality than all the other portraits of Presidents and First Ladies. In fact, it looks just good enough to have won second prize in a public high school art contest.


30 posted on 02/12/2018 10:09:08 AM PST by utahagen (but but)
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To: Olog-hai

The irony is it’s being criticized by fans of Mooshelle, that it doesn’t do her justice. I highly suspect they have no idea that the Obamas chose SJW black artists to do these. They chose poorly.


31 posted on 02/12/2018 10:10:14 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: robroys woman

Well the only commissions Mapplethorpe is doing now are in Hell.


32 posted on 02/12/2018 10:10:20 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Sherald, first-prize winner of the Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, beat out 2,500 other artists to paint Michelle Obama.


What did the other 2,500 look like?


33 posted on 02/12/2018 10:10:44 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: conservative98

The Michelle painting actually isn’t bad, for what it is. The obama painting looks ridiculous with that background. It looks like a bad Photoshop picture committed to the painted canvas.


34 posted on 02/12/2018 10:10:47 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: conservative98

Liberals are racist and this portrait is anatomically too exact, so to speak. It does not have the media glitzy fake glamoring around it

So liberals will attack the artist to look PC


35 posted on 02/12/2018 10:11:18 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Olog-hai

Is the portrait anatomically correct, with the appropriate bulges, or were they omitted?


36 posted on 02/12/2018 10:11:30 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: simpson96

To this very day, that ‘painting’ attempt makes me laugh!
It was so awful.
Tourism boomed in that little town after this happened.
I don’t know if they still reap any benefits or not.


37 posted on 02/12/2018 10:11:33 AM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

N a field of poison oak.


38 posted on 02/12/2018 10:12:10 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Olog-hai

at least the artist got one thing right... gadzooks, look at the size of those man-hands in relationship to the size of “her” head!


39 posted on 02/12/2018 10:12:16 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Olog-hai

Makes her look Whiter - hope she can ignore all the extra “privilege”....


40 posted on 02/12/2018 10:12:19 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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